Hair-curler.



' No. 698,578. Patented Apr; 29, I902.

H. E, m. & n. J.L'. STEINER.

HAIR GURLEB.

(Application md Apr. 27. 1901.)

(No Model.)

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HERMAN E. M. STEINER AND DANIEL J. L. STEINER, OF BRADDOOK,PENNSYLVANIA.

HAlR-CURLER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 698,578, dated April 29,1902.

Application filed April 27, 1901- To all whont it may concern.-

Beit known that we, HERMANE. M. STEINEB and DANIEL J. L. STEINER,citizens of the United States, residing at Braddock, in the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsyl- Vania, have invented a new and usefulHair- Ourler, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved hair curler and crimper; and the object ofthe invention is to provide an exceedingly cheap and sinitop of alamp-chimney for the purpose of heating the curling and crimping irons;and another object of the invention is to provide a hollow handle whichcan be detached and into which the curling-irons can be fastened orsecured when not in use.

With these various objects in view the invention consists in thepeculiar construction of the various parts and in their novelcombination and arrangement, all of which will be fully describedhereinafter and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a sideelevation of a hair-curler constructed in accordance with my invention,the curling-irons being placed in the hollow handle. Fig. 2 is asectional manner. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 Z tof Fig. 2; andFig. 4 is a view showing the manner of suspending the curling-irons uponthe lamp-chimney, the hollow handle being shown in the dotted lines.

In constructing a hair-curler in accordance with our invention we employa knob A, pref erably of wood, having an annular shoulder B arrangedadjacent to the end, and 0 indicates the curling irons or rods,preferably three in number, which are inserted into the knob A. Thesearms or rods are first heated and then placed in thehair for the purposeof curling and crimping the same. When the hair is to be crimped, itwill be in and between the rods 0, whereas when it is to be curled onlyit is wound around the said rods as an entirety. v r

The hollow handleD, preferably of wood, is somewhat longer than thecurling irons or rods 0, so that when the said rods are notin use theycan be inserted into the hollow han- Serial No. 57,789. (No model.)

dle D, the knob A fitting into the open end of the hollow handle, and inorder to make a tight fit we employ a leaf-spring E, which is fastenedat its upper end to a knob A at a point above the shoulder 13 andprojects a short distance below the lower end of the knob A and isadapted to be inserted into the open end of the hollow handle with thelower ends of the knob.

The shoulder B is notched, as shown at B, to form a seat for the springE. This spring E also serves to hold the curling-irons suspended uponthe top of the lamp-chimney for the purpose of heating the rods 0, theupper end of the chimney fitting between the lower end of the knob A andthe spring E, as most clearly shown at Fig. 4. The rods 0 are thusprojected down into the lamp-chimney adjacent to the frame and areheated sufficiently for curling or crimping the hair. When the rods 0are in use, the hollow handle is slipped over the upper portion of theknob, as most clearly shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4:.

It will thus be seen that we provide an exceedingly cheap and simpleconstruction of combined hair curler and crimper and one which can bequickly and easily manipulated either for use or in packing away.

Having thus fully described our invention,

what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States, is-

1. A hair-curler comprising a knob, having one ormore rods attachedthereto and a spring member attached to said knob, arrangedsubstantially parallel to the rod or rods said spring member beingadapted to fit over the top edge of a lamp-chimney and hold the rodadjacent to the flame, substantially as shown and described.

2. A hair-curler comprising a knob having an annular shoulder notched atone point, a

rod or rods attached to the knob, and a spring

